As global temperatures rise, scientists are uncovering more information about how the overheating of our planet is making extreme weather events worse — especially heavy rainfall. However, scientists ...

The trek across the North Sea island of Norderney—a barrier island in the German North Sea—is around five kilometers long. Designed by Lena Thissen, a researcher from the University of Oldenburg, ...

A new study published in Science Advances overturns a long-standing paradigm in climate science that stronger Northern Hemisphere summer insolation produces stronger tropical rainfall. Instead, a ...

Scientists believe they have found a way to improve warning systems for vulnerable communities threatened by humid heatwaves, which are on the rise due to climate change and can be damaging and even ...

The health of the Chesapeake Bay declined in an annual report card on the nation's largest estuary released Tuesday, with scientists noting the effect of extreme rainfall patterns during the hottest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heath Kelsey, director of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Integration and Application Network, poses ...

Heath Kelsey, director of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Integration and Application Network, poses for a photo at the Annapolis Maritime Museum, in Annapolis, Md., on ...

New research by NOAA and a visiting scientist from India shows that warming of the Indo-Pacific Ocean is altering rainfall patterns from the tropics to the United States, contributing to declines in ...

The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science gave the bay a C grade this year. Prolonged summer drought and intense downpours resulted in runoffs of nutrients from fields, the report ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The health of the Chesapeake Bay declined in an annual report card on the nation's largest estuary released Tuesday, with scientists noting the effect of extreme rainfall patterns ...